The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-05
SUMMARY or TnB NEWS.
EAST.

The steamer Aller which arrived at New
York Friday, brought eboo,o 600 in gold.
At Elizabeth, New Jersey, the storm Of
Saturday was the severest for twelve years.
Mise Rose Cleveland viii take the vice.
p~rincipalship Of a Fifth avenue private school
In New York at its fall opening.
The drivers and helpers Of tho Mutual
Benefit Ice company struck successfully Mon
day morning for an advance ia wages.
A covered wagon was run into by q train
on the Pennsylvania road at Ridgewood sta.
ton, Pennsylvania, and four persons killed.
A washout occurred on the Erie road, two
miles west Of C~oshocton, Sunday night,
wrecking . train of twenty.onc cars loaded
with cheese.
The Warren powder mill at Thomaston,
Maine, blew up Monday morning and George
Sheppard, . workman, was killed, being
literally torn to pieces.
The Delaware river at 8 O'Clock Saturday
night rose twelve feet. The Lehigh rose ten
feet. The railway bridge at Easton, Pennsyl
vanla, was washed away
R. G. Dun q Co.'s weekly trade review
gives an encouraging account of business and
crops. The iron production is larger nov
than during any previous period.
Richard H. PAYNE, q clerk under Paymaste,
Putnam, of the Portsmouth %navy-yard, wae
arrested Monday, charged with the embexxle.
ment Of ABOUT 5000 Of. the paymastel'e
funds.
Kate Hallihan, Della WEIGH, Maggie Toom.
ey and Lucy Callahan went bathing Thursday
afternoon In the Concord river atNorth Belle,
Massachusetts,. The current carried them be,
yond their depth and all were drowned.
A bolt Of lightning struck a small rowboa,
In Princess Bay, Staten Island, during a squal
Friday afternoon and instantly killed
Michael j. Dixon and John Ryan. The third
man who was In the boat With them wal
picked up senseless.
Another terrible disaster occurred Monda,
in the fatal No. ! slope of the susquehann,
Coal company mine. at Nanticoke. whereof,
three lives were sacrificed. The men wer,
killed by an explosion Of fire damp, which
was caused by the explosion of a charge O
giant powder.
At an early hour Thursday morning an en-
CINE attached to q freight train, while passin,
over the Mt. Savage bridge, near Cumberland
Nd, on the Pittsburg division Of the Balti
moro and Ohio railroad, fell through an,
several cars were thrown into the river. TIL,
engineer and fireman were instantly killed
and a brakeman seriously hurt.
Specials from the coke regions report tina
a large number Of strikers resumed work Fri
day, but new complications have arisen which
may prevent a settlement of the strike. A,
many Of the works the strikers would not q
to work unless the non-union men were dis
charged. The operators refused to conccd,
this and the men returned to their homes.
Near Peach Springs, A. T., Tuesday night
the east-bound passenger train ON the Allan.
tic and Pacific road ran into the rear end of q
freight train, wrecktng the engine and mai
car OF the former and the caboosc and two
freightca cars of the latter train. The fireman
OF the passenger train was killed and the en-.
gincer severely injured. A number of pas.
scngcrs were badly shaken up.
There was a water spout at North Hills,
dale, Mass, Sunday. Much damage was done
on the Harlem road. Bridges were washed
away below Chatham, compelling the suspen.
sion Of traffic. The plow works at Hillsdal.
were destroyed. At Great Darlington the
water rnSa tan fnot GCnv, l.g1c.. r.---
river were washed away, and grain was
ruined. Many cattle are reported drowned.
Particulars of the failure of the sarana,
Iron company, Of saranac, New York, nav.
been received. Bowen & signor, proprietor,
OF the company, have made an assignment
The liabilities are estimated at from fosO,OO(
to 100000, and the assets at about $s5, 600.
The company has been in business sine.
November, 1882, hut for two years past hay.
been laboring under a heavy load. 1t is sale
the property is ~mortgagcd for over ell5,OO0.
A conference took place Friday afternoo,
between the managers of the Reading iror
works and a committee representing its 1,SO(
employees, who have been standing out agains,
a 10 per cent reduction for some weeks. The
conference resulted in a victory for the mcn
for the present, 1t being agreed that all hands
go to work on Monday and finish all orders
on hand without a reduction taking place,
The question Of the proposed reduction will
be considered when new work comes in.
Giles Smith, # Deerfeld, New York, los,
three COWS Wednesday from bloody murrain.
He had them buried nesr a running stream
which infected the water. Three COWS be.
longing to William Budlcng, a neighbor, also
died of the disease. Budlong and John Raw.
men, while looking for the cause, were stunp
hv MOSQUITOES and became seriously i'll, having
been inoculatcd with the murrain virus.
There Is considerable excitement and indip.
nation about the matter. The stream flows
through several large farms Of imported
cattle.
The hot weather has had q remarkable Of.
fect on the egg supply in New York. A
thousand barrels have been spoiled by teing
Matched on the road or In the nest before be.
ing packed. The head of one Of the largest
egg houses in the city informed a reporter
that of 1,10O barrels received in twenty.four
hours not 500 were good, while some lots Of
leo cases or more sent by express were q total
loss. Iii were not for the eggs that were
placed in old storage a month ago the mar.
ket would be stripped. Strictly fresh eggs
cannot be obtained at any price.
Owing to the recent storms swelling small
streams the Little Lehigh river, in Pennsyl.
vanfa overdowed its banks and water dashed
into q large number of iron ore mines in
Long Swamp township. Some Of the shafts
are $50 feet deep. They are all filed up and